Friday, October 22, 2021

Buying Power . . .

So I said,
I've got a roof o'er my head.
Some people can't even say the same thing.
But it's still not a fact
I can take any comfort in.
I want more to make up my legacy.
I'm not poor but everybody's telling me

Money can't buy everything.
You've heard it time again.
No money can't buy happiness.
When will you learn this fact of life my friend?

So I said,
I've got my very own bed.
I don't give it much thought
When I lay down my head.
But it's cold and it's lonely
In December on the street.
Why do you tell me these kinds of things.
I want more of luxuries that wealth can bring.

I want to be a squire a king a country gentleman
If I can if I can.
I want to get respect for what I have 
And not for what I am, 
Just a man, just a man.

So I said,
It's more than daily bread
That I'm talking about.
Can't you hear what I said?
You see, everything changes 
But we have to admit,
What exists needs to be recognized,
Not merely out of our fear of being chastised.



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Thursday, October 21, 2021

Thousands . . .


 . . . of Apologies!


To all readers of this blog I offer the sincerest and most-heartfelt of apologies. I have just discovered that the email address on my profile with Blogger is (long-ago) incorrect. I have not been (purposely) rude or unfeeling. I am not too busy to acknowledge or respond. I am not arrogant nor self-indulgent.  My ego is
no bigger than that of most folks. 

I truly am so, so, sorry. You will find that the email address listed is accurate and will now work.
So I hope you will drop me a line, follow this blog and, most of all, 

Forgive me!


I'm Sorry
- Brenda Lee



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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Attraction . . .

 

Every hair upon your head
Has got to be in place for the camera.
Every place you happen to be
The people stare.

Cause, you are not the main attraction.
But oh, how you wanted to be.

Don’t equate each little thing
That happened in the past to the present.
Don’t expect each person to see
The things you see.

Do you ever think of anyone else?
Does concern come crossing your mind?
There’s enough conceit under your own belt
To last a lifetime.

If your dreams should ever come true,
I’ll see that spiteful face on the cover
Of a tabloid where the headline reads,
“She wants to be . . . “

Nothing but the main attraction.
But oh, how you wanted to be.




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Tuesday, October 19, 2021

So Much . . .

 . . . to feel, so hard to say . . . 

Is it age, is it wisdom, is it merely human?
The movies, the news, the books and the magazines are full of it. 
It's beautiful.
It's tragic. 
It's scary.
It's uncertain.
It's joyful.
It's full of potential
And details ripe for elucidation, 
But I'm currently unable.
Maybe tomorrow.


Maybe Tomorrow
- Badfinger



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Monday, October 18, 2021

Back Porch . . .

The stars lay in a blanket above.
A gentle breeze blowing in from the sea.
The last light flickers from one lonely candle.
Never before was a night half as perfect
For you and me.

But there was a party last night. 
Yes there was a party nextdoor,
‘Cause there’s a boy sleeping on the back porch.

You would have noticed a pin drop that evening.
The peace and calm when romance fills the air.
Ambience oozing from Coltrane and Hartman.
And barely twenty feet away, we’d no clue
What was happening there.

No blaring rock and roll.
No bottles on the walk.
No screaming, shouting and no fight.
Nobody called the law.
No sirens in the night.
Just one young man, stretched out on a chaise,
Sleeping it off.

Occasions such as this should be savored.
The combination of circumstance rare.
You may just be the true love that I’ve searched for.
I think though, that the folks in the house that’s next door 
Just don’t care.




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Sunday, October 17, 2021

Perfidy . . .

What’s in a name
Words are just words
Such compromise
Faithless was she
Deceitfulness; treachery
Breeching a trust; perfidious
No way to know 
Well in advance
Now it’s all clear
Reaped what she sowed
She had to go

Dishonor waits 
On perfidy
Rising above 
Your misery
False man forgets worldliness
Minus or plus; perfidious
Cowards and fools 
Hiding beneath lies
Accusat’ry
In you just like me
Will not die

Duplicity; two-facedness
Untrustworthiness confuses me
Such perfidy

Disloyalty
Baseless intrigue
Can it go on 
Indefinitely;
Perfidy?


Perfidy
- Ray Jozwiak
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Saturday, October 16, 2021

Fraudulent . . .


(from https://www.reuters.com/world/us/backers-trumps-false-fraud-claims-seek-control-next-us-elections-2021-09-22/) 
". . . Secretary-of-state candidates face primary elections next spring and summer and general elections on Nov. 8, 2022, along with the midterm congressional contests. Reuters interviewed nine of the 15 declared Republican candidates for secretary of state in five battleground states -- Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada -- and reviewed public statements by all of the candidates. Ten of the 15 have either declared that the 2020 election was stolen or called for their state’s results to be invalidated or further investigated. . . .Multiple recounts and audits have confirmed Biden won Georgia by about 12,000 votes. Raffensperger has repeatedly described the November election as secure and told Reuters in a recent interview that Trump’s surrogates don’t have the facts to support their allegations. . . Since the vote, Raffensperger and his family have been inundated with threats of violence, causing them to go into hiding at one point and to take other precautions, including starting their car remotely to guard against bombs, the Reuters investigations revealed. . ."    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
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